Morales' party falls short of two-thirds majority in assembly: exit polls
AFP, July, 2006
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LA PAZ (AFP) — The party of President Evo Morales has won a narrow majority in Bolivia's future constitutional assembly, falling far short of the number of seats needed to single-handedly rewrite the country's constitution, an exit poll showed.
The Movement Toward Socialism will control 130 seats in the 255-member assembly, or 51 percent of the seats, said the poll made public by Unitel television.
But the party fell short of the 70-to-80-percent majority it had hoped to gain and will lack the two-thirds majority needed to have a free hand in amending the constitution.
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The main opposition Social Democtratic Party of former president Jorge Quiroga was expected to control 67 seats, the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement of another ex-president, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, will have 18 seats, while the National Unity party gained 13, the poll showed.
The remaining seats were ...
